The Wanderer: The Planet That Ate the Moon and the Cat Woman Who Pulled a Man Out of a Tsunami
The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber won the 1965 Hugo. Full plot: a rogue planet eats the Moon, Tigerishka, the trial and the Stranger, and the ending.
The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber won the 1965 Hugo. Full plot: a rogue planet eats the Moon, Tigerishka, the trial and the Stranger, and the ending.
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein won the 1956 Hugo for Best Novel. A ham actor impersonates a kidnapped politician and never gets to stop. Full plot and legacy.
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester won the very first Best Novel Hugo in 1953. A telepathic murder, an ending that punishes without killing, and a huge legacy.
Stranger in a Strange Land is Heinlein’s hefty, difficult classic about a Mars-raised man on Earth. It’s a book I’ve grokked a bit more on every re-read.
The Stars My Destination is Bester’s fast, frantic Monte Cristo in space. I’ve read it many times and still find something new on every re-read.